Delfin strike and union rights
Deputy Boyd Barrett highlighted striking English language school workers denied union recognition and asked about an employment regulation order and wider precarious work. The Chair limited him to one question, and the Minister for Education said the Minister of State was working on it and would revert directly.
In the bitter November cold 50 workers at the Delfin English language school have been on strike all of this week. They were forced out on strike because of the refusal of their employer to recognise their right to be in a trade union and represented by it. This is the third or fourth week of industrial action. Where is the employment regulation order the Minister of State, Deputy Mitchell O'Connor, recommended in order to establish proper minimum pay rates, conditions and rights for workers in the sector? More generally, what will the Government do about the completely precarious number of working hours given and the lack of trade union recognition in the very important English language sector?
